Week six notebook

The jinx continues
This is one that if you are a serious follower of Columbia High School athletics as a player, coach, fan or myself you tend to believe.
Columbia had a day off school on Friday. It got the players out of their normal routine and it showed early as the Tide struggled for the first half, giving up 20 points, including a score on the final play of the first half.
Once the Tide got back to to playing "Columbia Football," things were much better.
So, when was the last time Columbia won a game in say football or basketball when they played on a day they didn't have school? They are tough to remember.

Looking at the first six games
Last season, the Tide stood at 0-6 after six games. Of those six games, three ended in mercy rule losses and in two others, the Tide gave up 40 plus points. This season, the Tide stands at 2-4 overall. Of their four losses, only one Daniel Boone was a real blow out. The Tide lost to Northeastern by six; NL by five and Boiling Springs by 15. Columbia was in all four of those losses, including the Boone game, when they were stopped at the Boone 5, trailing 14-13. By the time Columbia scored again, they trailed by three scores.

Two straight
For the second time this season, or the first time since the opener against Eastern, the Tide made two consecutive PATs. Seth Lefever easily made the first PAT and the second PAT was a two-point conversion from Tyler Harrison to Michael Burke.

Steaks
Columbia has now lost three straight games to Northern Lebanon. Friday, the Tide will be out to stop a two-game losing streak to Annville-Cleona. The Dutchmen, who were knocked off by Donegal on Friday, beat the Tide 21-14 last year and 35-0 in 2008.